Achilles Tendon Injury 1. Anatomy: 2. Pathology: – Achilles tendonitis – Achilles tendon rupture – Achilles tendon avulsion Anatomy • Largest tendon in the body • Achilles tendon forms from the union of gastrocnemius (medial and lateral) and soleus tendons • Blood supply: posterior tibial artery Imaging • • Figure 1. Normal MRI of the Achilles tendon demonstrates this to be a well defined hypointense (dark) structure (arrow) inserting onto the calcaneus‚ thereafter becoming
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Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury Outline I. Introduction A. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important public health issue in the United States. B. TBI is caused by a bump‚ blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain C. TBI is generally categorized as mild‚ moderate or severe.
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football. Over the years‚ many head related injuries have become more common while playing high school sports. People used to be careless of head injuries until the numbers of concussions that have been occurring began to raise quickly. Because of this people are starting to take action and becoming more aware of head injuries to try to prevent them. Head injuries may often lead to concussions‚ which in some cases lead to long-term head trauma. Head injuries are being prevented by trying to reduce head
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hard to find any person that is not affected by a traumatic brain injury or stroke‚ whether they personally experienced the brain injury‚ or they know someone who was affected by a brain injury. Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are any injuries to the brain caused by a range of bumps‚ jolts‚ and even penetrations‚ which have a negative impact on normal function in the brain. Concussions may be considered mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) because the people experiencing concussions have shorter periods
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10 boxers die in the ring each year. Boxers put their health and even their lives at stake every time they choose to compete in a boxing match ("Common Boxing Injuries & Prevention | iSport.com"). Short Term Injuries While boxing‚ injuries that can last anywhere from one day to a few months occur on a regular basis. Most short term injuries do
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The first way to prevent sports injuries is to educate people about it. Sports injuries are a common problem in sports these days. One of the most common sports injury is a concussion. The concussion can be life threatening because it has to do with the brain. “42% of teens playing sports said they have downplayed or hidden an injury because they wanted to keep playing” according to Elizabeth Murry. If 42% of students are not telling coaches they can be severely injured and puts them at risk of being
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Injuries can be quite an experience especially the one that we consider to be life changing. Injuries are something that can happen to us at almost anytime but usually do not but when they do we are never quite prepared for them. In this story‚ I had gotten injured and still am dealing with it today and was not at all prepared to be hurt at all. No injury is good but good things have come from being injured. When the injury happened first I had received the injury‚ then taken to the hospital and
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Sports Injuries: An Annotated Bibliography Sports have been around since the olympics in 790 B.C.‚ yet only recently has the affects of these sports on our body been addressed. Dr. Bennet Omalu brought attention to the NFLs injuries like no other in 2002‚ when he discovered that the former football star Mike Webster‚ the Pittsburgh Steelers championship center‚ had a degenerative brain disease due to constant head trauma(1). Since the discovery other sports‚ such as rodeo for example‚ have shown
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after head injury remained significantly increased for as long as 12 years‚ irrespective of the severity of the injury‚ results of a case-control study showed. Among young adults‚ the risk disparity ballooned to more than a fivefold difference‚ Scottish investigators reported online in the Journal of Neurology‚ Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Overall‚ patients with a history of head injury had more than a twofold greater risk of death than did two control groups of individuals without head injury. “As might
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Traumatic Brain Injury: Myths‚ Misconceptions and the Need for Lifelong Healthcare I don’t have a droopy face‚ a steel plate in my head‚ nor am I paralyzed in any region of my body. I have a speech impediment and disfluency‚ cognitive fatigue‚ short term memory loss‚ slow processing of information‚ noise sensitivity‚ and attention deficit. I look “normal” and I have a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Social prejudice and negative perceptions of survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) exist. There
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